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This is my personal website where I share projects I've been working on and what I learn along the way.

Get in touch: mail@chrismytton.com

Recent articles

Plain text websites

In a world of web apps, videos, social media and multi-media distraction it’s nice to know there are still some websites out there which use simple plain text

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Amazing space facts you might not know

Learn why sunsets happen earlier at high altitudes, the surprising truth about Earth’s daily rotation, and Venus’s unique, backward spin.

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How to query CSVs with SQLite

A simple shell function to query CSV files using SQLite

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What land and assets does Cheltenham Council own?

Or how I turned a CSV into a map and a database.

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Book notes: A Guide to the Good Life

The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy.

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Be prolific

Produce lots of stuff and share it.

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Ruby: The not so good parts

Shining a light on the dark corners of Ruby.

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Consume less, produce more

Expressing yourself through creative outputs helps balance out the anxiety caused by the modern information economy.

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Canvas art in TypeScript

📝 Notes from porting a JavaScript random art generator to TypeScript.

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Extracting a list of IDs from an XLSX file

Using csvkit and UNIX to extract a list of IDs from an XLSX file.

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